Nomad is an optimistic interoperability protocol that enables secure cross-chain communication. The goal of Nomad is to provide the connective tissue to empower end-users to interact securely across blockchains and developers to build cross-chain applications (or xApps) such as token bridges, native cross-chain assets, cross-chain governance applications, and more.
Axis Robotics has announced the opening of pre-registration for the AXIS token community public sale. The public sale is powered by Sonar by EchoDot and plans to sell 10 million AXIS tokens at $0.1 each, representing 1% of the total supply and a fully diluted valuation of $100 million, with a target raise of 1 million USDC. The minimum subscription per entity is $100, with a maximum of $100,000, and the participating network and settlement currency is USDC on Base. 10% of the tokens will unlock at TGE, with the remainder released according to the vesting schedule published by the project.Pre-registration is now open. The subscription window will open on September 21 at 13:00 (Singapore time) and close on September 28 at 13:00, with settlement expected around September 30. Participants must complete KYC/KYB through Sonar. U.S. persons and residents of 26 restricted jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, mainland China, Russia, and Iran, are not eligible to participate. Axis Robotics stated that since launching on Base in March 2026, the platform has generated over 5 million data trajectories, attracted more than 200,000 contributors, and ranked among the top two DApps in the Base ecosystem. Previously, on July 27, Axis Robotics announced the completion of a $12 million seed round led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and several angel investors.
Axis Robotics has announced the completion of a $12 million seed funding round, led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Core Team Ventures, 10K Ventures, and several angel investors.According to the introduction, Axis Robotics primarily addresses the data needs for Physical AI and robotic models. It leverages large-scale simulation, first-person real-world data collection, and human-in-the-loop post-training to build a closed-loop data workflow, enabling the scalable production of structured and diverse robotic data. This funding will be used to accelerate the development of a massive, parallel, human-in-the-loop global data engine.
According to The Block, Cambrian, a blockchain data infrastructure startup, has announced the completion of a $6 million seed funding round co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital. Flow Traders, Selini Capital, Paper Ventures, and Nomad Capital also participated. Angel investors include Jason Mo, Avi Felman, and Alex Lee and Willy Chuang, co-founders of TrueNorth. This round was structured as a SAFE with token warrants, and Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital have secured board observer seats. With this round, Cambrian’s total funding raised reaches $11.9 million, including its previously announced $5.9 million pre-seed round led by a16z CSX.
Odaily reports: Blockchain data infrastructure startup Cambrian has secured $6 million in seed funding, co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital, with participation from Flow Traders, Selini Capital, Paper Ventures, Nomad Capital, and others.As previously reported by Odaily, Cambrian also received a $5.9 million pre-seed investment led by the a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator, bringing its total funding to $11.9 million.Founded in 2024, Cambrian currently offers APIs for institutions and AI agents, providing real-time and historical on-chain data covering yield, risk, lending rates, trading activity, liquidity positions, and market sentiment, helping users allocate capital on-chain. The company plans to expand its existing APIs into a verifiable blockchain data oracle network, serving institutional financial clients, AI agent builders, and protocols that require reliable data to control capital flows. Unlike traditional oracles that primarily provide price data, Cambrian aims to aggregate data from lending protocols, DEX liquidity, social sentiment, developer activity, and historical market data.According to Cambrian, its platform has processed millions of API calls, currently indexes approximately $4.5 billion in TVL across four major lending protocols, tracks 1,789 vaults managed by 895 curators, and monitors over 320,000 DEX liquidity pools on Base and Solana. The company also plans to expand trading data support by integrating Hyperliquid and richer perpetual contract data.
U.S. prosecutors allege that on August 1, 2022, Brock exploited a vulnerability in the Nomad verification mechanism to withdraw approximately $2.8 million worth of tokens without locking corresponding assets. He subsequently exchanged them for other cryptocurrencies and transferred them across multiple wallets to obscure the source of funds. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California indicted him on eight counts in August 2023, involving computer fraud, conversion of stolen property, and money laundering, and filed an extradition request in December 2024. Brock was arrested in May 2025 at Ben Gurion Airport while preparing to travel to Russia. Shortly before his arrest, he had changed his surname to Block and obtained a new passport.
Odaily reports: Israel's State Attorney's Office announced on Thursday that Israel has extradited Alexander Block, a dual Israeli-Russian national, to the United States. Block, whose original name is Alexander Gurevich, faces charges for allegedly stealing approximately $2.8 million from the crypto cross-chain bridge Nomad in 2022.U.S. prosecutors allege that Block, operating under the username "Bitlik," carried out six test transfers and four main transfers, moving tokens through multiple wallets and converting them into other cryptocurrencies to conceal their origin. His actions exposed a vulnerability in Nomad's smart contract, after which other users drained over $186 million from wallets controlled by the project.Israel's Supreme Court rejected Block's extradition appeal, ruling that even if the software permits the actions in question, exploiting a programming vulnerability can still constitute unauthorized computer intrusion; the court also noted that publicly visible on-chain transactions do not necessarily reveal the identity of wallet controllers, nor do they rule out attempts to conceal the source of funds. Supreme Court President Isaac Amit subsequently denied his request for a retrial. (Decrypt)
Axis Robotics has announced the opening of pre-registration for the AXIS token community public sale. The public sale is powered by Sonar by EchoDot and plans to sell 10 million AXIS tokens at $0.1 each, representing 1% of the total supply and a fully diluted valuation of $100 million, with a target raise of 1 million USDC. The minimum subscription per entity is $100, with a maximum of $100,000, and the participating network and settlement currency is USDC on Base. 10% of the tokens will unlock at TGE, with the remainder released according to the vesting schedule published by the project.Pre-registration is now open. The subscription window will open on September 21 at 13:00 (Singapore time) and close on September 28 at 13:00, with settlement expected around September 30. Participants must complete KYC/KYB through Sonar. U.S. persons and residents of 26 restricted jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, mainland China, Russia, and Iran, are not eligible to participate. Axis Robotics stated that since launching on Base in March 2026, the platform has generated over 5 million data trajectories, attracted more than 200,000 contributors, and ranked among the top two DApps in the Base ecosystem. Previously, on July 27, Axis Robotics announced the completion of a $12 million seed round led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and several angel investors.
Odaily reports: Blockchain data infrastructure startup Cambrian has secured $6 million in seed funding, co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital, with participation from Flow Traders, Selini Capital, Paper Ventures, Nomad Capital, and others.As previously reported by Odaily, Cambrian also received a $5.9 million pre-seed investment led by the a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator, bringing its total funding to $11.9 million.Founded in 2024, Cambrian currently offers APIs for institutions and AI agents, providing real-time and historical on-chain data covering yield, risk, lending rates, trading activity, liquidity positions, and market sentiment, helping users allocate capital on-chain. The company plans to expand its existing APIs into a verifiable blockchain data oracle network, serving institutional financial clients, AI agent builders, and protocols that require reliable data to control capital flows. Unlike traditional oracles that primarily provide price data, Cambrian aims to aggregate data from lending protocols, DEX liquidity, social sentiment, developer activity, and historical market data.According to Cambrian, its platform has processed millions of API calls, currently indexes approximately $4.5 billion in TVL across four major lending protocols, tracks 1,789 vaults managed by 895 curators, and monitors over 320,000 DEX liquidity pools on Base and Solana. The company also plans to expand trading data support by integrating Hyperliquid and richer perpetual contract data.
U.S. prosecutors allege that on August 1, 2022, Brock exploited a vulnerability in the Nomad verification mechanism to withdraw approximately $2.8 million worth of tokens without locking corresponding assets. He subsequently exchanged them for other cryptocurrencies and transferred them across multiple wallets to obscure the source of funds. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California indicted him on eight counts in August 2023, involving computer fraud, conversion of stolen property, and money laundering, and filed an extradition request in December 2024. Brock was arrested in May 2025 at Ben Gurion Airport while preparing to travel to Russia. Shortly before his arrest, he had changed his surname to Block and obtained a new passport.
Odaily reports: Israel's State Attorney's Office announced on Thursday that Israel has extradited Alexander Block, a dual Israeli-Russian national, to the United States. Block, whose original name is Alexander Gurevich, faces charges for allegedly stealing approximately $2.8 million from the crypto cross-chain bridge Nomad in 2022.U.S. prosecutors allege that Block, operating under the username "Bitlik," carried out six test transfers and four main transfers, moving tokens through multiple wallets and converting them into other cryptocurrencies to conceal their origin. His actions exposed a vulnerability in Nomad's smart contract, after which other users drained over $186 million from wallets controlled by the project.Israel's Supreme Court rejected Block's extradition appeal, ruling that even if the software permits the actions in question, exploiting a programming vulnerability can still constitute unauthorized computer intrusion; the court also noted that publicly visible on-chain transactions do not necessarily reveal the identity of wallet controllers, nor do they rule out attempts to conceal the source of funds. Supreme Court President Isaac Amit subsequently denied his request for a retrial. (Decrypt)
Odaily reports: Alex Taaffe, Chief Revenue Officer of digital asset trading firm GSR, stated that the on-chain issuance of real-world assets (RWAs) continues to increase, but investor demand has yet to match, and the growing number of issuers and blockchains has further fragmented liquidity in the tokenized market.Mike Silagadze, founder and CEO of ether.fi, said that stablecoins facilitate cross-border transfers, but broader adoption depends on whether they can be used for everyday spending; Yvonne Chia, Head of Communications at USDD, believes that issuers should prioritize improving user experience.The stablecoin market cap stands at $306 billion, up approximately 2% year-over-year and about 74% over the past 12 months. Ilya Podoynitsyn, co-founder and CEO of FinHarbor, pointed out that service providers still need to address regulatory requirements across different jurisdictions and adjust their infrastructure and compliance systems.Miguel Morel, founder and CEO of blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence, said that on-chain data can be used to assess counterparty risk and the source of client deposits. Pulkit Gupta of Nomad Capital noted that crypto market liquidity has been relatively weak over the past three months, making it more difficult to exit altcoin investments. (Cointelegraph)
Axis Robotics has announced the opening of pre-registration for the AXIS token community public sale. The public sale is powered by Sonar by EchoDot and plans to sell 10 million AXIS tokens at $0.1 each, representing 1% of the total supply and a fully diluted valuation of $100 million, with a target raise of 1 million USDC. The minimum subscription per entity is $100, with a maximum of $100,000, and the participating network and settlement currency is USDC on Base. 10% of the tokens will unlock at TGE, with the remainder released according to the vesting schedule published by the project.Pre-registration is now open. The subscription window will open on September 21 at 13:00 (Singapore time) and close on September 28 at 13:00, with settlement expected around September 30. Participants must complete KYC/KYB through Sonar. U.S. persons and residents of 26 restricted jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, mainland China, Russia, and Iran, are not eligible to participate. Axis Robotics stated that since launching on Base in March 2026, the platform has generated over 5 million data trajectories, attracted more than 200,000 contributors, and ranked among the top two DApps in the Base ecosystem. Previously, on July 27, Axis Robotics announced the completion of a $12 million seed round led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and several angel investors.
Axis Robotics has announced the completion of a $12 million seed funding round, led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Core Team Ventures, 10K Ventures, and several angel investors.According to the introduction, Axis Robotics primarily addresses the data needs for Physical AI and robotic models. It leverages large-scale simulation, first-person real-world data collection, and human-in-the-loop post-training to build a closed-loop data workflow, enabling the scalable production of structured and diverse robotic data. This funding will be used to accelerate the development of a massive, parallel, human-in-the-loop global data engine.
According to The Block, Cambrian, a blockchain data infrastructure startup, has announced the completion of a $6 million seed funding round co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital. Flow Traders, Selini Capital, Paper Ventures, and Nomad Capital also participated. Angel investors include Jason Mo, Avi Felman, and Alex Lee and Willy Chuang, co-founders of TrueNorth. This round was structured as a SAFE with token warrants, and Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital have secured board observer seats. With this round, Cambrian’s total funding raised reaches $11.9 million, including its previously announced $5.9 million pre-seed round led by a16z CSX.